Best's Great Western 'Foudre Ferment' Riesling 2021

"This wine is the successor of the very well received 2012 EVT 51. The 2012 was the inaugural wine of this style from Best’s, but it is reflective of the way Riesling was made here in the 1970s and earlier.

The aromatic Riesling juice is given extended skin contact then wild fermented in large French oak foudre (barrels), one made by Marc Grenier in France and the other by the Schneckenleitner family in Austria. The resultant wine exhibits both the complexities of a barrel ferment and spontaneous fermentation without the overt oak flavour, due to the large size and subtlety of the foudre." -Winery notes